Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 12 September by FSM - Academic year 2022 - 2023

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Published 10 August 2023

Last updated 10 August 2023

Full 2022/23 academic year local authority, regional and national attendance since 12 September 2022, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools broken down by Free School Meals eligibility. Totals for all schools are also included that include estimates for non-response.

Data set details

Theme: Pupils and schools
Publication: Pupil attendance in schools
Release: Week 29 2023
Release type
Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
Indicators: Afternoon sessions
Attendance rate
Authorised absence rate
Filters: Free school meal eligibility
School Type
Time period: 2022/23

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	la_name	old_la_code	school_type	disadvantage_code	present_sessions	approved_educational_activity	overall_attendance	overall_absence	authorised_absence	unauthorised_absence	late_sessions	possible_sessions	reason_present_am	reason_present_pm	reason_present	reason_l_present_late_before_registers_closed	reason_i_authorised_illness	reason_m_authorised_medical_dental	reason_r_authorised_religious_observance	reason_s_authorised_study_leave	reason_t_authorised_grt_absence	reason_h_authorised_holiday	reason_e_authorised_excluded	reason_c_authorised_other	reason_b_aea_education_off_site	reason_d_aea_dual_registration	reason_j_aea_interview	reason_p_aea_approved_sporting_activity	reason_v_aea_educational_visit_trip	reason_w_aea_work_experience	reason_g_unauthorised_holiday	reason_u_unauthorised_late_after_registers_closed	reason_o_other_unauthorised	reason_n_no_reason_yet	reason_x_not_attending_covid_non_compulsory	attendance_perc	overall_absence_perc	authorised_absence_perc	unauthorised_absence_perc	illness_perc	appointments_perc	unauth_hol_perc	unauth_oth_perc	unauth_late_registers_closed_perc	unauth_not_yet_perc	auth_religious_perc	auth_study_perc	auth_grt_perc	auth_holiday_perc	auth_excluded_perc	auth_other_perc	covid_non_compulsory_perc	pa_perc	academic_year
202223	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E08000009	Trafford	358	Special	FSM eligible	102981	3512	106493	16144	9582	6562	877	122637	51487	50807	102294	687	6564	979	138	0	0	215	175	1511	1899	0	0	107	1506	0	646	190	5656	70	0	86.83594674	13.16405326	7.813302674	5.350750589	5.352381418	0.798290891	0.52675783	4.611984964	0.154928774	0.057079022	0.112527214	0	0	0.175314138	0.142697555	1.232091457	0	37.60445682	202223
202223	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West	E06000052	Cornwall	908	Special	FSM eligible	62434	761	63195	10525	8707	1818	453	73720	31124	30949	62073	361	4568	778	0	0	0	297	18	3046	642	0	2	31	74	12	198	92	1415	113	0	85.72300597	14.27699403	11.81090613	2.4660879	6.196418882	1.055344547	0.268583831	1.919424851	0.124796527	0.153282691	0	0	0	0.402875746	0.024416712	4.131850244	0	39.90610329	202223
202223	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West	E06000066	Somerset	933	Primary	FSM Not eligible	5430463	60143	5490606	295879	234983	60896	36675	5786485	2694543	2704896	5399439	31024	194562	12889	671	3	481	5977	1257	18802	12012	1404	518	4165	43447	1	31178	5651	21321	2746	340	94.88672311	5.113276886	4.060893617	1.052383269	3.362352101	0.222743168	0.538807238	0.368462028	0.097658596	0.047455407	0.011595986	5.18E-05	0.008312473	0.103292413	0.021723032	0.324929556	0.005875761	11.50183943	202223
202223	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	E09000002	Barking and Dagenham	301	Special	FSM Not eligible	62298	2106	64404	11139	8905	2234	810	75543	30575	31033	61608	690	4560	1121	220	2	0	398	179	2425	1903	339	3	1	126	73	224	120	1878	12	0	85.25475557	14.74524443	11.7879883	2.957256132	6.036297208	1.483923064	0.296519863	2.48600135	0.158849927	0.015884993	0.291224865	0.002647499	0	0.526852256	0.23695114	3.210092265	0	46.80851064	202223
202223	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E08000003	Manchester	352	Special	FSM Not eligible	191359	1161	192520	29870	25084	4786	3175	222390	93777	95519	189296	2063	13426	1821	759	6	0	291	12	8765	484	117	2	59	616	0	1043	1112	2458	173	4	86.56864068	13.43135932	11.27928414	2.152075183	6.037141958	0.818831782	0.468995908	1.105265525	0.500022483	0.077791268	0.341292324	0.002697963	0	0.130851207	0.005395926	3.941274338	0.001798642	46.0130719	202223

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 51 variables
Variable name	Variable description
appointments_perc	Authorised appointments absence rate
approved_educational_activity	Sessions marked as approved educational activity
attendance_perc	Attendance rate
auth_excluded_perc	Authorised exclusions absence rate
auth_grt_perc	Authorised traveller absence rate

Footnotes

At local authority level, due to data only being representative of those schools currently participating in daily data sharing, it is possible there will be differences between absence rates presented here and in the termly school census based absence publication.

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